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On January 28, 2024, House Republicans indicated their intention to move forward with two articles of impeachment against Alejandro Mayorkas, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, alleging "willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law" in regards to federal immigration laws and breach of the public trust. [1]
The House narrowly voted in February to impeach Mayorkas for his handling of the border, arguing in the two articles that he “willfully and systematically” refused to enforce immigration laws.
“The facts are indisputable — for three years, Secretary Mayorkas has willfully and systemically refused to comply with the laws enacted by Congress, and he has breached the public trust ...
Bouarfa v. Mayorkas, 604 U.S. 6 (2024), is a United States Supreme Court case about whether an individual can obtain judicial review regarding a revoked visa petition based on non-discretionary criteria. The US Supreme Court ruled that visa revocations are left to the discretion of the Homeland Security Department. [1]
Mayorkas said that the incoming Trump administration's critical rhetoric "misses everything that we have tried to do, and I view it as rhetoric that is a political and not substantive."
After law school, Mayorkas worked as an assistant United States attorney and as the United States attorney for the Central District of California in Los Angeles from 1998 to 2001. [2] In 2009, Mayorkas was a member of the presidential transition team for Barack Obama, leading the team responsible for the U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal ...
The Department of Homeland Security issued two memos late Monday to repeal limits on federal immigration enforcement, and demanding a review on parole use.
The House Homeland Security Committee plans to vote on January 31 on an impeachment resolution of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, moving closer to making him just the second ...